"Get over here!" It's a haunting cry, and accompanies something rather violent: Scorpion's signature move, the spear attack. Seemingly from nowhere, a razor-sharp kunai attached to the end of a rope or a chain appears from Scorpion's hand, flies across the screen, and viciously embeds itself into the chest of his opponent. The resurrected ninja uses it to wrench his dazed adversary towards himself for a free hit.
Representing the stinger at the end of a scorpion's tail, it's emblematic of the Mortal Kombat series in so many ways: bloody, grisly, and uncompromising. It's crude and cruel in equal measure, yet it's also one of the first moves mastered in the game.